Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,738, Gurdon Geer, Continental (Conn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Conn.) Geer, Gordon
S. 42,738
CONTENTS

12.173 Ohio.
Gordon Geer of Postage in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sam l B Webb of the Connecticut Continental line, for the term of Three years
inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of June 1816 and sent to Sam l Ring Esq Ravenna - Ohio.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 8 3/4 67.43 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 48.
$ 115:40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Noted sent to Mr. Day Esq. 8 Nov 1820 Ravenna Ohio

State of Ohio } Portage County }
on the twentysecond day of June A.D. 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges in and for the County aforesaid— Personally appeared Gurdon Guee aged sixty- one years resident in Portage in the said County of Portage who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War that he the said Gurdon Guee enlisted the 20 of March A.D. 1777 in Lebanon Windham County & State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Capt Thomas Worcester of the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B. Webb that he continued to serve in the said Company until the 20 of March A.D. 1780 when he was discharged from service in Morristown in the State of Jersey and received a discharge but has lost it he was in the Battle at Rhode Island and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for sup- =port and that he has no other evidence of his said services now in his power soon to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel H. Hough Jr. Associate Judge I Samuel Hough as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Gurdon Guee did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Dep- =artment of War pursuant to the directions of the afo- =mentioned Act of Congress. Samuel Hough Jr. Associate Judge

I do hereby certify that I have taken particular pains to obtain information respecting the circumstances of the within named Gordon Gue and am well satisfied that he is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of Assistance from his Country for support dated February 8 th 1819
Samuel King Jr. Associate Judge
The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify and make known that Samuel King Jr. Esquire to whom the foregoing declaration was made and who subscribed the foregoing Certificate was at the time of making and subscribing the same an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all whom Official seal shall appear and belief is and ought to be given - and that the foregoing signature is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal at Ravenna this twenty seventh day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Seth Day Clerk.
Approved by the Hon. John W. Foster Attorney General
Gordon Gue Connect. line Col. Saml. P. Hildreth 20 March 1817 20 March 1820
Correct by Call

Gwendolyn Geer
copy
12,173.
Completed
Certificate dated 22 nd June 1819
Em

State of Ohio Portage County ss
BE IT REMEMBERED
That at a Term of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage specially held at the Court House in the Town of Ravenna within and for said County of Portage and State of Ohio before Elias Harmon, Alva Dey and Augustus Baldwin Esquires Official Judges of said Court being a court of record for said County expressly constituted by law, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment on the eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty: Personally appeared in open court Gideon Geer aged sixty three years resident in the Township of Portage in said County who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows that on the twentieth day of March 1777 he enlisted into a Regiment commanded by Samuel B. Webb Esq. and into a company commanded by Thomas Worster Esq. for three years in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment that he was in battle on Rhode Island under the command of Genl. Sullivan that on the twentieth day of March 1780 he received a discharge at Morristown, New Jersey signed by Ebenezer Huntington Lieutenant Col. Comd. of said Regiment that the declaration has heretofore, to wit, on the twenty second day of June 1818, under the provisions of an act of Congress of the 18 th day of March 1818 made declaration of his said service before Samuel King Junr. Esq. then one of the Official Judges of said court and in pursuance thereof has been inscribed on the pension list of the United States as by his pension certificate No 12.173 dated the 22 nd day of June 1819 in the profession appears.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the Revolutionary War passed the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or assets contracts of debts due to me not having been income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. This declaration exhibits here in Court the following Inventory of his estate viz
  Part of a set of Blacksmith tools $ 20.00 5 Cups and Saucers 37 1/2   2 Pewter plates 1.50 6 Old Knives & forks 25   4 Pewter plates 1.00 2 Bowls 25   5 Earthen plates 0.62 1/2 1 Small wheel 1.00   25.00 
The declarant further states that his family consists of himself aged sixty three in tolerable health for a man of his age. A wife, Ruth, aged sixty four, much out of health not able to do but a little and that the occupation of the declarant is that of a Blacksmith has no land or any real property.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this eighth day of August A.D. 1820 Dey Clerk.
The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Seth Dey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty five dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this tenth day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Dey Clerk.

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Gordon Geer S.F. 42738
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Feb. 20. 1777 Feb. 20. 1780 Pvt Thomas Wooster Samuel B. Webb Conn.                                     
Battles engaged in, Rhode Island. Residence of soldier at enlistment, inlisted at Lebanon Windham Co. Conn. Date of application for pension, June 22. 1818 His el. was al. Residence at date of application, Portage Portage Co. Ohio. Age at date of application, 61 years. Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his wife Ruth who was 64 years of age.

V.L.M.
42738
INVALID.
Rev.
File No. 42,738
Endow Geer
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 15 th March 18
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 191
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1910 Oct. 15—Heath. to Mrs. J. A. M c Mullen 1910 Dec. 15—Heath. So to M. Geer. V.L.M.

3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by A. Mac D. , 21/10/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Res. Ohio.
Soldier Gurden Geer
Service _____
Additional Service----- Rev.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191____
No claim, combination records -----, 191---
REMARKS:
REMARKS: Inv. 7. 42, 738 { Conn. Ohio

Ad.
3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by a. mve & 10/12/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Gordon Isner
Service _____
Additional Service Rev.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191____
No claim, combination records _____, 191____
REMARKS:
No Writ. any service " Ref. at all

Department of State National Archives and Records Service

Department of Church History. Hartford Theological Seminary.
CURTIS M. GEER.
West Hartford Conn
Dec 8 '1910
Bureau of Pensions.
Please send me what information you have about Gordon Geer. Pensioner of the Revolutionary War under Act of 1818. He was a resident of Ohio. Also about Harris B Rogers of Conn. pensioner of the war of 1812. (Vol. 6 of 22876)
Very truly yours
C M Geer

RECEIVED OCT 20 1970 DIVISION

OCT 20 1910
Akron Ohio
Oct 18 th 1910
Commission Pensions
Revolutionary
Please send war record of Gurdin Geer who served in the Revolutionary war in Connunder Captain Elezer Prntices of Colonel 1 McClellan regiment Granted Pension Under act of 1818 then residing in Middlebury Summit County then Portage Co Ohio he was my Father Great Great Grand Father I also have in my Posession a Powder horn which he Carried through the war & which I cherish very much I also take care of his grave any record you might furnish me would be gladly received yours respectfully Mrs J. A. Mc Mullen 14 North Summit St Akron Ohio